Suspenders.



F. W. MALLY & E. P. HUDSON.

SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED 11110.15, 1910.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

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FREDERICK W. MALLY, 0F AUSTIN, TEXAS, AND EDWIN P. HUDSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA; SAID MALLY ASSIGNOE TO SAID HUDSON.

SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (Pet. 21, 1913.

Original application filed December 26, 1908, Serial No. 469,217. Divided and this application filed December 15,1910.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FREDERICK W. MALLY and EDWIN P. HUDsoN, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Austin, Travis county, Texas, and Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, respectively, have invented new and useful Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting trousers and drawers, or two garments of similar form, simultaneously by the same suspenders.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting a plurality of tabs conjunctively and at the same altitude on the front ends of suspender webs in such manner that either of said tabs may be moved longitudinally, or laterally, or removed and replaced relative to its support independently of the other.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of ele ments hereinafter set forth, pointed out in our claims and illustrated by the accorn panying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating means for mounting two tabs independently of each other at the same altitude and conjunctively supported on a single web or shoulder strap. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, on the indicated line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

This application is divided out of our application for Letters Patent of the United States filed December 26, 1908, Serial Number 469,217, to which reference hereby is made.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates a looped end portion or front portion of a shoulder strap or elastic web of suspender, which may be constructed and connected to form the loop in any common and well known manner. Duplicate supporting devices 21, 22, preferably made of fiat metal plates formed with longitudinal slots 11, 12, are suspended conjunctively in the suspender loop 10 by passage of the web through the slots 11. Duplicate cast-off straps 13, 14 are formed with Serial No. 597,555.

loops on one end portion each, which loops extend through the lower slots 12 of the duplicate supporting devices 21, 22. Duplicate metal hooks 15, 16 are arranged opposite to each other and have their stems extending within the loops of the cast-off straps 13, 14. Button studs 17, 18 are mounted through and connect the respective loops of the cast-off straps 13, 14 and the stems of the hooks 15, 16 therein and said studs project in opposite directions. Separate and independent tabs 19, 20 are removably and replaceably mounted in the hooks 15, 16 and said tabs are approximately parallel with each other and depend from the same altitude at the points of engagement with the hooks. The body portions of the cast-of" straps 13, 14 extend beneath the hooks 15, 16 in opposite directions and are provided with button sockets 23, 24 adapted to engage and detachably connect with the button studs 17, 18. The button sockets 23, 24 open oppositely relative to each other to correspond with the opposite extension of the studs 17 18. Free end portions of the cast-off straps extend upwardly from the button socket-s 23, 24 on opposite sides of the supporting devices 21, 22. In this construction there is a duplication of supporting means and the novelty lies in the conjunctive mounting thereof, independently slidable and in the same altitude on the suspender web 10, and the opposite arrangement of the detachable ends of the keepers or cast-ofi straps, so that either of the tabs can be removed or replaced conveniently and independently of the other. We contemplate the use of identical tabs for either garment and we prefer to use such tabs as will engage buttons on each or either garment.

We claim as our invention- 1. In a Suspender, the combination of a looped shoulder strap, separate supporting plates independently and slidably mounted at the same altitude thereon, independent cast-offs carried by said supporting plates and adapted for opening in opposite directions, and separate tabs mounted at the same altitude in said independent cast-offs.

2. In a suspender, the combination of a looped shoulder strap, separate supporting Austin, Texas, this fifth day of October, plates independently mounted at the same 1910.

altitude thereon, independent cast-offs carried by said supporting plates in superposed relations and adapted for opening in opposite directions, and separate tabs mounted at the same altitude and in superposed relations in said independent cast-offs.

. Signed by me, EDWIN P. HUDSO at Des Moines, Iowa, this 1st day of October, 1910, and signed by me FREDERICK W. MALLY, at

FREDERICK W. MALLY. EDWIN P. HUDSON.

Witnesses to Mallys signature:

M. D. WYATT, MARY P. THOMPSON. Witnesses to Hudsons signature:

S. C. SWVEET, EARL M. SINCLAIR.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

7 Washington, D. C. 

